Therefore, they could follow the advice from the university without any resistance.
It was thanks to this that the proportion of participants in the monastic order movement, originally maintained at around 30-40%, increased by about 10% during that time.
Those who couldn't participate in collective labor due to poor manual dexterity were able to join.
Though just 10%, it represented tens of thousands of labor force at the same time.
It was enough for numerous new factories to emerge and numerous new monastic orders to be established.
And soon, factory owners and abbots began to tilt their heads in wonder.
Clearly... with more labor invested, their influence had expanded.
But the upward trend was beyond what they had expected.
No one knew the exact reason.
It seemed that something profound was changing in the community.
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In the 21st century, the early modern period of the 16th and 17th centuries is often thought of as the twilight of religion.
